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Sky Freesat card - keeping alive in Dreambox?
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<blockquote data-quote="astro-k" data-source="post: 453652" data-attributes="member: 232690"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>I have a Dreambox 7020s and although I put a dish on a motor in the backyard I mainly use it to record FTA channels on 28.2E these days. I've read how some people have got a Sky card working in the box and I tried my Sky+ card and managed to get Channel 4 and 5 ok with it. I called "Freesat from Sky" and asked about a Freesat card. They said no problem, £20, and it should work fine in the Dreambox as I had already got another card working ok. A few days later I got the card and called up to activate it, but they couldn't do it without a box number, despite saying it would be fine in a non Skydigital box. Got put through to several different tech people (and in the meantime pointed out that their own website <a href="http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/?pID=6" target="_blank">http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/?pID=6</a> has an interesting q&a "I already have digital satellite equipment - what else do I need?... a freesat viewing card") and they didn't know how to activate a card without a box number, but eventually he said he would activate the card with the box number of their test box. So I put the card in, switched on the Dreambox and an hour later I have Channel 4 and 5 ok now. Perhaps looking back I could have used my Sky+ box number to activate it..?</p><p></p><p>So it's working but I've been reading about keeping the card alive. I'm no expert at all but have Newcamd-Betad.6.10b running. Any advice on how to keep the card alive in the Dreambox? I suppose the card was activated in my Dreambox with this cam, so will it keep the card alive ok?</p><p></p><p>TIA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="astro-k, post: 453652, member: 232690"] Hi, I have a Dreambox 7020s and although I put a dish on a motor in the backyard I mainly use it to record FTA channels on 28.2E these days. I've read how some people have got a Sky card working in the box and I tried my Sky+ card and managed to get Channel 4 and 5 ok with it. I called "Freesat from Sky" and asked about a Freesat card. They said no problem, £20, and it should work fine in the Dreambox as I had already got another card working ok. A few days later I got the card and called up to activate it, but they couldn't do it without a box number, despite saying it would be fine in a non Skydigital box. Got put through to several different tech people (and in the meantime pointed out that their own website [url]http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/?pID=6[/url] has an interesting q&a "I already have digital satellite equipment - what else do I need?... a freesat viewing card") and they didn't know how to activate a card without a box number, but eventually he said he would activate the card with the box number of their test box. So I put the card in, switched on the Dreambox and an hour later I have Channel 4 and 5 ok now. Perhaps looking back I could have used my Sky+ box number to activate it..? So it's working but I've been reading about keeping the card alive. I'm no expert at all but have Newcamd-Betad.6.10b running. Any advice on how to keep the card alive in the Dreambox? I suppose the card was activated in my Dreambox with this cam, so will it keep the card alive ok? TIA [/QUOTE]
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